But does what Apple has shown in its demos of the Vision Pro actually meet reality? Does it provide any value at all?
In my eyes, it's exactly the same as AI. The demos work. You can play around with it, and its impressive for an hour. But there's just very little value.
The value would come if it was something you would feel comfortable wearing all day. So it would need perfect pass through, be much much lighter and more comfortable. If they achieved that and can do multiple high resolution virtual displays then people would use it.
The R&D required to get to that point is vast though.
> can do multiple high resolution virtual displays
In most applications, it then would need to compete on price with multiple high resolution displays, and undercut them quite significantly to break the inertia of the old tech (and other various advantages - like not wearing something all day and being able to allow other people to look at what you have on your screen).
I take your point but living in a London flat I don't have the room for multiple high resolution displays. Nor are they very portable, I have a MBP rather than an iMac because mobility is important.
I do think we're 4+ years until it gets to the 'iPhone 1' level of utility though, so we'll see how committed Apple are to it.
That's what all these companies are peddling though. The question is - do humans actually NEED a display before their eyes for all awake time? Or even most of it? Maybe, but today I have some doubts.
Given how we as a society are now having significant second thoughts as to the net utility for everybody having a display in their pocket for all awake time, I also have some doubts.
it's very sad because it's sort of so near but so far kind of situation
It would be valuable if it could do multimonitor, but it can't. It would be valuable if it could run real apps but it only runs iPad apps. It would be valuable if Apple opened up the ecosystem, and let it easily and openly run existing VR apps, including controllers - but they won't.
In fact the hardware itself crosses the threshold to where the value could be had, which is something that couldn't be said before. But Apple deliberately crimped it based on their ideology, so we are still waiting. There is light at the end of the tunnel though.
> But Apple deliberately crimped it based on their ideology
It's in a strange place, because Apple definitely also crimped it by not even writing enough software for it inhouse.
Why can't it run Mac apps? Why can't you share your "screen configuration" and its contents with other people wearing a Vision Pro in the same room as you?
In my eyes, it's exactly the same as AI. The demos work. You can play around with it, and its impressive for an hour. But there's just very little value.